Thursday, May 18, 2017

Fiction Review: Fatal Transaction

Sara Beckwith is a computer programmer and hacker genius working for the bad guys. Her boss, Levy, has already made millions through a
credit card scam, and he wants much more. Levy always gets his way. People who
cross him quickly find themselves dead or worse—tortured slowly, until their
brains turn to mush. Sara is aware that, when her job is over, he’ll do the same
to her.

She plans to run—and to steal Levy’s money
so she can live in style. Sara imbeds code deep, creates secret passwords,
changes her identity, and moves Levy’s stolen money around and to her new accounts. She uses some of it
to buy a ticket to Italy.

On the very day she’s going to leave, Levy's goons locate her. They rough her up, and Sara is miraculously rescued by Derry,
an innocent young man who happens to be in the right place at the right time.
He whisks her away in his car and takes her to his home, calling a friend who’s
a nurse to attend to her injuries.

Meanwhile, Levy has everyone on his team
looking for Sara.

What happens when Levy’s goons find Derry? Do
they also get Sara? How does this end? You’ll have to read it for yourself!

This is a great book! It’s exciting and
then some. It’s also clean with a Christian tone. I read the Kindle edition,
which has a few subject-verb agreement problems (maybe four in the whole
book). Otherwise, it’s well written. The author shows he really understands
computers and computer crime. I found it fascinating. He effectively develops the
characters of Sara and Derry, and some of the minor characters also have
realistic depth to them. I really enjoyed Fatal Transaction. It’s the first I’ve read
by W. Richard Lawrence. He’s written another novel, and I’ll be sure to check
it out. Easily five stars.

Note: I wouldn’t recommend this book to younger teens. It covers some
difficult subjects: rape, murder, and torture among them. It’s also fairly
violent. It isn’t crudely written, though, and sexual sins, including rape, are
stated but not explicit. If you’re very squeamish, you might want to skip this
book. The torture is realistic.

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